Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Christmas 2012

IN THE 5199th year of the creation of the world,

from the time when in
the beginning God created heaven and earth; from the flood, the 2957th
year; from the birth of Abraham, the 2015th year; from Moses and the
going-out of the people of Israel from Egypt, the 1510th year; from the
anointing of David as king, the 1032nd year; in the 65th week according
to the prophecy of Daniel; in the 194th Olympiad; from the founding of
the city of Rome, the 752nd year; in the 42nd year of the rule of Octavian
Augustus, when the whole world was at peace, in the sixth age of the
world: Jesus Christ, the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father,
desiring to sanctify the world by His most merciful coming, having been
conceived by the Holy Ghost, and nine months having passed since His
conception was born
in Bethlehem of Juda of the Virgin Mary, having become man.

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and benediction. And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard all saying: To him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lamb, benediction and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said: Amen. And the four and twenty ancients fell down on their faces and adored him that liveth for ever and ever. (The Apocalypse .5 12-14)